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They were duly horrified and surprised and then Mrs. Ebley bridled a little after all, it was the behavior of her own niece upon which aspersion was being cast.
It would be only fair to question her first " "My wife is quite right," Canon Ebley agreed. "We should listen to no more until Stella is here to defend herself. Let us send a message for her to descend at once." He went and rang the bell as he spoke, and the summons to Miss Rawson was dispatched.
Next morning, when the three were seated at a merry early breakfast in the sitting-room discussing what should be said in Stella's letter to her Aunt Caroline, a loud knock came to the door, and, without waiting for a response, Canon Ebley and Stella's cousin, Mr. Deanwood, entered the room.
But on the morrow he would insist upon their all leaving the hotel and Rome itself no more chances of her communicating with this hateful Russian count should be risked. As the Ebley party had only arrived three days ago in the city, it was clearly impossible that the affair could have gone far, and as he had heard of their sightseeing and knew Mrs.
"Your aunt will be ready to go out again now," the Uncle Erasmus announced, as Stella placed her acceptance in the envelope. "You had better go up and put your hat on, my dear." The Times rustled slightly and Stella replied a little hurriedly: "I was just finishing a letter, uncle, then I will come." "Very well," said Canon Ebley, not altogether pleased, as he walked away with the note.
"There will be no dancing, I suppose," said Mr. Medlicott primly, "because, if so, I am sorry, but I cannot accompany you it is not that I disapprove of dancing for others," he hastened to add, "but I do not care to watch it myself. And I do not think it wise for Stella to grow to care for it, either." "It is merely a reception," Mrs. Ebley said, "and it will be a very interesting sight."
Ebley gasped never in her whole life had her niece spoken to her in this tone. She to be rebuked! It was unspeakable. She could only glare behind her glasses. What had come to the girl in the last two days if this manner was the result of travel, far better to have stayed at home!
I am twenty-one years old now and surely can judge for myself whether or no I wish to marry a man and I have decided I do not intend to marry Eustace Medlicott. I almost feel I detest him." Mrs. Ebley was petrified with anger and astonishment. "I am sorry to tell you I cannot believe you, Stella," she said, "your fiance had a most unpleasant shock last night.
And he turned his shoulders to the irate junior chaplain and looked Canon Ebley straight in the face. "I am here to ask for the hand of your niece, Miss Rawson, as she is now free from other engagements, and with her full consent I desire to make her my wife." "Come, Erasmus," Mrs. Ebley said with icy dignity.
Canon Ebley tried to unclasp her arms from round his neck. He was terribly upset. To be sure, the girl was very dear to him, and had always been so sweet a niece, a truthful, obedient child from early infancy. Caroline had perhaps been a little hard he had better hear the facts. "Dear me, dear me," he blurted out.
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